Using ICE to invert weightmap values


Here’s a more general ICE tree for inverting weightmaps: it handles weightmaps that are not in the 0-1 value.
When I first worked it out in my head I saw it like this:

But that’s just the same as using a Rescale:

Here’s a weightmap before and after being inverted by the above. In this example, the weightmap has a value range of -1 to 3.
Before:

After (inverted):

Looking at those, maybe I should do something like this:

Which gives this inverted weightmap:

XSI List – 2011 retrospective


In 2011, there were just under 12K posts on the XSI mailing list. Here’s the top posts, posters, and keywords for 2011.

Top 10 posts:
I listed the top 11 because “Friday Flashback” is an ongoing thread.

  1. Friday Flashback (329)
  2. Softimage at Autodesk – an observation (212)
  3. PyQt For Softimage (153)
  4. Softimage 2012 (126)
  5. “Power Extrude” (110)
  6. 2012 AP (66)
  7. GEAR 1.0.0 Released (65)
  8. Requirements for task development? (61)
  9. Mental Ray is it going anywhere? (59)
  10. Clouds – Simul software technology (55)
  11. Ice Tutorials (55)

Top 10 posters:

  1. Alan Fregtman (431)
  2. Steven Caron (428)
  3. Stephen Blair (382)
  4. Eric Thivierge (291)
  5. Matt Lind (258)
  6. Guillaume Laforge (245)
  7. Paul Griswold (217)
  8. Chris Marshall (180)
  9. Ciaran Moloney (179)
  10. Raffaele Fragapane (176)

Top 10 keywords in Subject lines
I removed words like “Softimage”, “Autodesk”, “using”, “getting”, and “SI” before generating this word cloud.

The 2010 list retrospective, for comparison…

If you prefer Top 25 lists, here you go…
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2011 in review


The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 180,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 8 days for that many people to see it.

In 2011, there were 475 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 722 posts. There were 542 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 354mb. That’s about a picture per day.

The busiest day of the year was October 21st with 1,182 views. The most popular post that day was Friday Flashback #40.

Click here to see the complete report.